Midwifery professionals from across the island of Ireland came together on 19 January at Parliament Buildings, Stormont. They launched the year long centennial celebrations of the Midwives (Ireland) Act 1918 and the contribution midwifery has made women’s health in Ireland over the past century. Dawn Johnston, NMBI's Director of Midwifery, gave a presentation on the 100 year history of midwifery.

Thank you to those of you that have paid your fee. If you have not received your Annual Retention certificate within 2 weeks of payment, please contact registration@nmbi.ie.

The following are submission dates for all advanced practice documents to go forward to the Registration Committee in 2018:

Documents guidelines can be found on the links below:
Job Descriptions must be submitted to the Advanced Practice Section of NMBI
Portfolios must be submitted to the Advanced Practice Section of NMBI

Relevant transcripts for the Masters and relevant specialist post registration programme(s) must be submitted directly to Advanced Practice Section of the NMBI by the Higher Education Institution.

Please Note: Monitor the NMBI website closely for any changes made to the registration process prior to application.

For further information email nrohan@nmbi.ie for any nursing queries or djohnston@nmbi.ie for midwifery queries.

Applicants applying to register through the NMBI Non EU route as nurses or midwives may now submit details of their post qualification experience as part of their application. Applicants must demonstrate that their post qualification experience meets the following criteria:
• The applicant must have been effectively and lawfully engaged in a role or roles where they had full responsibility for the planning, organisation and administration of nursing or midwifery care delivered to the patient in a clinical environment in the field of practice they qualified in with no limit on time or recency of practice.
• This experience must be certified by the employer.

Further information will be made available on the NMBI website shortly.

You are advised to apply to the CAO before 5.15pm on 1 February 2018. The CAO late application facility will be available from early March until 1 May at 5.15pm.

NMBI also wish to highlight the need for mature applicants to follow the additional two-stage process when applying for the written assessment test.

You must register and apply for the assessment test which is run by the Public Appointments Service (PAS) on behalf of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. The application process is open between 2 February 2018 and 22 February 2018 on the PublicJobs.ie website.

Please do not confuse registering a profile with applying for the test. You must do both on PublicJobs.ie.

To find out about becoming a nurse or midwife, visit our Careers and Nursing Midwifery section. If you have any queries please email us at careersinformation@nmbi.ie.

The Board of NMBI has made a decision as to findings and sanctions arising from three complaints received under the Nurses and Midwives Act, 2011.

Findings were made against Mr Peter Jeremiah Cremin (PIN 51922), Mr Gilbert Francois Hategekimana (PIN 125620) and Ms Ewa Maria Ksiezopolska (PIN 127842).

The findings are published in full on NMBI's Findings and Decisions page.